Dr. Brassard's Plastic and SRS Incompetence

In 2008 I had a rhinoplasty with Dr.Brassard to change the projection of my nose which gave a feminine appearance to my nose and face. Before the surgery I talked to Dr. Brassard many times to make sure he understood well what I wanted. Dr. Brassard never expressed any doubts as to the feasibility of such a surgery, quite the opposite, and always was very enthusiastic at the idea of doing this operation. Right up to the last minute he maintained that the surgery was ''far from unfeasible'' and when he asked me if I had anything to say before going into the operating room, I said that I wanted nothing ''turned up'' anymore, to which he replied, ''Don't worry.'' Well, I should have worried. My ''straight'' nose never came to pass. Brassard not only changed things to it that he was not supposed to, like reducing the nostrils, but he also didn't do the one thing he was supposed to, which was to remove the excess cartilage on the tip to make it straight. I had asked for a masculinization of my nose, what I got was a femminization of it. I was so horrified upon seeing the surgery results that I thought I was going to lose my mind. The more the swelling went down, the worse it got. When I went to see him 3 months later to ask for a revision, he said that if I was still not satisfied with the results one year after the surgery, he would do it. Waiting one year in the state I was in seemed much to ask, especially when considering a book on plastic surgery written by Dr. Benatar, in which he writes that one can have a touch-up to the nose six months after a rhinoplasty. I nevertheless tried to make a go of it, but by November the depression about the state of my nose had set in and I didn't feel I could wait 6 more months before a revision. One has to keep in mind that the results I got from the surgery were not because of some unfortunate complication during the surgery, but because of Brassard's decision to do things he should not have done. I did manage to wait 12 months, though, but when I finally met with him one year after, he started to back out of the revision, using phony excuses and reproaching me my so-called agressiveness. I was not aggressive in my telling him how unhappy I was with the results, but I was firm and direct. Brassard just didn't want to do the revision, yet he admitted that he hadn't done what he was supposed to, going so far as saying that I was ''the nose that he dragged.'' He even started to put words in my mouth, saying that I thought of him as an asshole who was doing it only for the money. Why he said these things, I don't know. Maybe that's what he thinks of himself subconsciously. After he had renege on his promise to do the revision, I was very angry at myself for having chosen Brassard as my plastic surgeon. A couple of days later, I asked for a refund. This man fucked up my nose, reneged on his promise to fix it and, during our meeting, was pompous and unpleasant ad nauseum. I wrote an e-mail to him asking for the refund, he refused. This money would give me the means to have the revision with another doctor. I wrote again. No answer so far. My decision to post this video is, of course, to make myself feel better until I have the money to get this revision, but also to warn people, transsexuals in particular, of this two-faced doctor who, for all intent and purposes, seems very nice and understanding at prima facies, but who, underneath it all, is a man who does not keep his word, does not take the time to evaluate the part of the body to operate carefully ( he took pictures of my nose just before my going into the operating room and not during one of the consultations I had with him, which can partly explain the poor results of my surgery), decides to do things during surgery that you never agreed on because he never asked for your opinion beforehand ,and, when faced with a badly done surgery, does not want to clean up ''his mess'', but also doesn't want to give a refund. The problem with Brassard is that everything will work well for as long as the patient is happy with the surgery. As soon as something comes up, however,be it a complication during or after surgery, or a patient who's dissatified with the results, he will pull away and leave you to your own devices. For those of you who are Americans, there are many good plastic surgeons in the U.S.A. whose prices for SRS are not much higher than those found here in Canada, if indeed higher. For those of you who are Canadians, there are doctors other than Brassard who would be willing to perform some of these surgeries. As for those of you who want the phalloplasty, you should definitely save a bit more and go to the U.S or Europe to have it done because Brassard's results are quite ugly. You can see them at http://www.thetransitionalmale.com/p1.html
P.S. Since then, I've had a touch up to my nose and it's much better, but I still will need another one to make it completety straight.

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[Nettuno88]

i would love to see your before/after surgery.

[crazymisterbig]

@Nettuno88 Send me your email adress and I'll be glad to show you the nose this prick did to me.

[cautiouskate]

I had SRS with Dr. Brassard in Sep 2009. I am absolutely pleased with him and So were the other 10 that I was there with. Yes, I was only in the hospital for about 3 days before going to the house for the girls (next door to the hospital) but that was no problem because I think you recover quicker that way. It has been a year now and I still think I made the right decision.

[crazymisterbig]

@cautiouskate You're lucky.

[crazymisterbig]

In your case, I don't know if your insurance will pay this time. It's possible they will since the first surgery was not done properly. I guess it depends on how your insurance company sees this surgery. Is it necessary from a medical point of view? or is it just a matter of aesthetics?

[crazymisterbig]

I don't know, maybe your insurance paid because your operation was to correct a physical problem,e.g. breathing problems, so your insurance covered it. Here, in Canada, a rhinoplasty can be covered by the public health care system if it's considered a medical necessity; however,if you have a rhinoplasty to enhance your looks or because you don't like your nose, you have to deal with a private clinic and pay out of your own pocket, no matter how much you may hate your nose.

[bqureshi390]

Whoa... That's interesting because my first surgery was covered by insurance as it was a septorhinoplasty to correct deviated septum, but he also shaved down a hump that I happened to have.

However, now, since there is scar tissue and still a bit of a hump, I want to get a touch-up to fix the problem... So it will be covered by insurance again, or maybe I have to pay for anasthesia?

[crazymisterbig]

If you take the same surgeon who did the surgery the first time, the price will be lower than it was the first time. If you have to take another surgeon, the price will be the same as if you've never had surgery, because for him it's a new surgery.

[bqureshi390]

if u need a revision, do you have to pay a second time??

[crazymisterbig]

If it's true he does over 200 SRS surgeries a year, then he should reduce so he could put more time into the ones he does do, then, maybe, we would all have the results we deserve.